Archive for January 2010
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A 5-year-old girl was killed and at least 4,000 people were left homeless by a fire that razed hundreds of shanties in the Philippine capital, officials said Sunday.Arson investigators said they were looking into reports
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Two civilians were killed and another wounded in separate incidents Sunday by Nato forces fearing suicide bomb attacks in Afghanistan, officials said. German soldiers operating in the northern city of Kunduz killed one civilian and
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China successfully launched an orbiter into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in south-western Sichuan province Sunday, state media reported.It was the third orbiter launched for the country's independent satellite navigation network known as
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A Yemeni court has sentenced in absentia a female journalist to one year in prison for insulting the president. Anisa Mohammed Ali Othman told The Associated Press Sunday that the two-year-old case over a pair
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A widely-prescribed drug to tackle high blood pressure and heart disease also appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, according to a large US study published on January 13. US
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World leaders should focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible over the next 40 years to avoid perilous warming conditions, researchers said on January 11. In the first study of its kind,
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Arctic terns can fly more than 80,000 km (49,700 miles) a year, beating past estimates of the seabirds' record migrations and equivalent to three round trips to the Moon over a lifetime, a study showed
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Women who suffer from depression and anxiety may want to take a look at their diet as possible contributors to these conditions, study findings hint. Dr Felice N. Jacka, at the University of Melbourne, Australia,
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Telling your boss what you really think of them is good for your health - and helps managers improve, according to research published on January 13. Firms should be even be encouraged to let employees
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Encouraging more patients to continue taking their prescribed cholesterol drugs would stave off twice as many stroke and heart attack deaths as giving the drugs to a wider range of people, scientists said on January
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